The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Vaidyanathan, Yip, Garbe
Wildfire episodes pose a significant public health threat in the United States. Adverse health impacts associated with wildfires occur near the burn area as well as in places far downwind due to wildfire smoke exposures. Health effects associated with exposure to particulate…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires over the last couple decades have increased in size and intensity and the fire season has lengthened, resulting in increased wildfire suppression costs and greater risk to human health and safety. The large, severe fires have also had pronounced effects on water…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Suzuki, Manzello
It is well accepted that as structures are exposed to wind, stagnation planes are produced around structures. Past work by the authors demonstrated for the first-time that wind-driven firebrand showers may accumulate in these stagnation planes. While those experiments…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suzuki, Manzello, Hayashi
Wildfires that spread into communities, commonly referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface fires (WUI), are a significant international problem. Post-fire damage studies have suggested for some time that firebrands are a significant cause of structure ignition in WUI fires, yet…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Arbaugh, Jones, Chew, Merzenich, van Wagtendonk, Wiitala, Schaaf, Kimberlin
This project was funded in Mar. 1999 with an additional $100,000 added in 2000 to include the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. The objectives of the project were: 1. To perform a comprehensive sensitivity analysis of SIMPPLLE/MAGIS, VDDT/TELSA and FETM to determine the reliability of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calef, Varvak, McGuire
In western North America, the carbon-rich boreal forest is experiencing warmer temperatures, drier conditions and larger and more frequent wildfires. However, the fire regime is also affected by direct human activities through suppression, ignition, and land use changes. Models…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Mueller, Santamaria, Gallagher, El Houssami, Filkov, Clark, Skowronski, Hadden, Mell, Simeoni
An experimental approach has been developed to quantify the characteristics and flux of firebrands during a management-scale wildfire in a pine-dominated ecosystem. By characterizing the local fire behavior and measuring the temporal and spatial variation in firebrand collection…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mahmoud, Chulahwat
The ‘wildland–urban interface’ (WUI) is a term commonly used to describe areas where wildfires and the built environment have the potential to interact resulting in loss of properties and potential loss of life. Significant residential losses associated with wildland interface…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frazier, Coops, Wulder, Hermosilla, White
The disturbance and recovery cycles of Canadian boreal forests result in highly dynamic landscapes, requiring continued monitoring to observe and characterize environmental change over time. Well-established remote sensing methods capture change over forested ecosystems, however…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
El Houssami, Lamorlette, Morvan, Hadden, Simeoni
An experimental and numerical study was carried out to assess the performance of the different submodels and parameters used to describe the burning dynamics of wildfires. A multiphase formulation was used and compared to static fires of dried pitch pine needles of different…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Groot
This webinar addresses the following subjects regarding CanFIRE: CFFDRS science-management integration model; Stand-level, fire behaviour-based model; Simulates physical and ecological fire effects; Small scale (fire behaviour) to large scale (fire regimes); New fuel consumption…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications team has completed a set of online tutorials, instructor’s guides and student workbooks to help land managers use the Natural Fuels Photo Series, Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS), Consume 3.0, and Fire Emissions…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rauscher
The purpose of this study is to assist fire resource managers to characterize and reduce uncertainty, identify fire risk, and improve decision-making processes in the wildland/urban interface as well as the broader forested wildlands. We propose expanding the existing NED…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin, Mack, Jandt
Clearing and forest thinning are increasingly seen as strategies to protect private property and infrastructure from boreal wildfires. Property sited in natural spruce-dominated forests are often considered high risk due to the intensity of fires in this fuel type when it burns…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pastick, Duffy, Genet, Rupp, Wylie, Johnson, Jorgenson, Bliss, McGuire, Jafarov, Knight
Modern climate change in Alaska has resulted in widespread thawing of permafrost, increased fire activity, and extensive changes in vegetation characteristics that have significant consequences for socioecological systems. Despite observations of the heightened sensitivity of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Genet, Hue, Lyu, McGuire, Zhuang, Clein, D'Amore, Bennett, Breen, Biles, Euskirchen, Johnson, Kurkowski, Schroder, Pastick, Rupp, Wylie, Zhang, Zhou, Zhu
It is important to understand how upland ecosystems of Alaska, which are estimated to occupy 84% of the state (i.e. 1,237,774 km2), are influencing and will influence state-wide carbon (C) dynamics in the face of ongoing climate change. We coupled fire disturbance and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin, Celis, Johnstone, McGuire, Genet, Schuur, Rupp, Mack
Increasing wildfire activity in Alaska's boreal forests has led to greater fuel-reduction management. Management has been implemented to reduce wildfire spread, but the ecological impacts of these practices are poorly known. We quantified the effects of hand-thinning and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crabtree, Halligan, Saatchi, Aspinall, Despain
The current fire situation with numerous very large fires that regularly cross agency boundaries has shown a major need for improved fuels maps. Small fires require only simple maps that can be hand drawn on large scale base maps during a reconnaissance flight but large fires…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rutherford, Schultz
Presentation by Courtney Schultz and Tait Rutherford at the 2017 Alaska Fall Fire Science Workshop, October 10, 2017.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Waigl
Chris Waigl presents a repeat of her thesis defense.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Houseman
Brian Houseman presents his thesis work, October 27, 2017.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Hoadley, Ferguson, O'Neill, Wilson
BlueSkyRAINS is a smoke modeling system that allows users to view smoke forecasts from fire. These smoke predictions have a large number of potential uses, from informing go/no-go decisions on prescribed fires to wildland fire use/wildfire categorization decisions to information…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnett
This webinar highlights results from a study on the effects of fuel treatments and previously burned areas on subsequent fire management costs. Presenter Kevin Barnett and his colleagues, Helen Naughton, Sean Parks, and Carol Miller, built models explaining variation in daily…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Havlina, Mehlman, Silvertand
This webinar will walk the audience through the Vegetation Management Practices learning series, produced by the Bureau of Land Management and The Nature Conservancy. This learning series responds to action item #5 within the fuels section of the Integrated Rangeland Fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Chambers, Champ
Before the rise of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, public information officers on wildfires depended on traditional mass media, including newspapers, television, and radio, to get important messages about dangerous wildfires to the public. That is not the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES